Deseret News | Reader comments: Hostages tell of little food, deprivations

Reader comments: Hostages tell of little food, deprivations

similar | 4:03 a.m. July 4, 2008

Other than being chained to trees, the rebels probably live exactly the way they the prisioners were treated.

Carole Knowles | 6:05 a.m. July 4, 2008

Bravo and many thanks to the brave rescuers. I guess revenge, something we're inclined to view as negative, played a critical role in this case. Then again, those were unusual circumstances, times of war, dealing with the enemy. What a daring rescue!
No doubt, movie of the week coming right up.

re:similar | 9:22 a.m. July 4, 2008

other than the rebels CHOSE to be there. Doh!

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Anonymous | 3:20 p.m. July 4, 2008

Let's hope things are going to be better in Colombia and for the Colombian people. If people in this country would stop buying illegal drugs...the whole world would be a better place. If the entertainment industry would stop glorifying drugs and ruining their lives and setting a terrible example...it would be more peaceful in the world.

God Bless | 5:07 p.m. July 4, 2008

God Bless those who risk their lives for Freedom!!

God Bless America!!

Farcy | 1:50 a.m. July 5, 2008

Oh, I would have paid to see the look on those rebel's faces when Chuck Norris jumped out of that Helicopter.

Anonymous | 12:38 p.m. July 5, 2008

"U.S. surveillance planes intercepted rebel radio and satellite phone conversations and employed foliage-penetrating imagery"

Aren't wiretaps unconstitutional?

I can't wait for the ACLU to get involved in this case and get the hostages back to the jungle where they can be held until they are set free in a legal manner. This rescue will never hold up in a United States Federal Court.

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Lance Cheung, Associated Press

Keith Stansell, front, one of three U.S. military contractors who had been held hostage for more than five years by Colombian rebels, steps onto U.S. soil at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas, on Wednesday.